Editing Anuket (section)

==Worship==
[[File:Neferhotep I 3.jpg|thumb|left|Reliefs of [[Senusret III]] and [[Neferhotep I]] making offerings to Anuket on Seheil.]]
Anuket was part of a triad with the god [[Khnum]], and the goddess [[Satet|Satis]]. She may have been the sister of the goddess [[Satet|Satis]]<ref name="Pinch">Geraldine Pinch, Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press, 2004, p 186</ref> or she may have been a junior consort to Khnum instead.<ref name="Pinch"/>{{sfnp|EB|1878}}

A temple dedicated to Anuket was erected on the [[Seheil|Island of Seheil]]. Inscriptions show that a shrine or altar was dedicated to her at this site by the [[Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt|13th Dynasty]] [[pharaoh]] [[Sobekhotep III]]. Much later, during the 18th Dynasty, [[Amenhotep II]] dedicated a chapel to the goddess.<ref>[[Kathryn A. Bard]], ed., ''Encyclopedia of the archaeology of ancient Egypt'', Psychology Press, 1999, p 178</ref>

During the New Kingdom, Anuket's cult at [[Elephantine]] included a river procession of the goddess during the first month of Shemu. Inscriptions mention the processional festival of Khnum and Anuket during this period.<ref>Zahi A. Hawass, Lyla Pinch Brock, Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Archaeology, American Univ in Cairo Press, 2003, p 443</ref>

[[File:N372.2d.jpg|thumb|right|Anouké or Anouki (Anucè, Anucis, Istia, Estia, Vesta), N372.2, [[Brooklyn Museum]]]]
Ceremonially, when the Nile started its annual flood, the Festival of Anuket began. People threw coins, gold, jewelry, and precious gifts into the river, in thanks to the goddess for the life-giving water and returning benefits derived from the wealth provided by her fertility. The [[taboo]] held in several parts of Egypt, against eating certain [[fish]] which were considered sacred, was lifted during this time, suggesting that a fish species of the Nile was a [[totem]] for Anuket and that they were consumed as part of the [[ritual]] of her major religious festival.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anuket |url=https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/anuket/ |website=Ancient Egypt Online}}</ref> She was seen as bringing forth the flood.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hoffman |first=Susanne M |title=Preliminary Observations on the Dendera Zodiac (Egypt) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susanne-Hoffmann-5/publication/378342368_Preliminary_Observations_on_the_Dendera_Zodiac_Egypt/links/65d5afb3adc608480adb8328/Preliminary-Observations-on-the-Dendera-Zodiac-Egypt.pdf |journal=Astronomy in Culture}}</ref>